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SUE VS SUE
Feb. 9th, 2014 09:28 amThis installment uses some terminology in regards to the weretigers that was made up during RP. It's not canon, but it makes sense and makes things less confusing, so I'm including it.
In the books, a tiger "clan" can refer either to a group of tigers in the same way pack does for the wolves or rodere from the rats, but can also mean what color they come from--Cynric, for example is from the blue clan in the sense of his lineage but is a member of Anita's clan in terms of group affiliation. Changs rule the clans in terms of color lineage, so Bibiana rules the entire white clan aka all the white weretigers in the USA, but may not rule the smaller clan that a particular tiger of their color belongs to in terms of group affiliation.
Obviously, that's confusing as fuck, so this is the system we use:
Clan - The color they originate from. White Clan, Red Clan, and so on. As seen in the books, most members of a clan will live in a mass commune in one place made up only or almost exclusively of members of that clan color (the White Clan in Vegas, Red clan in Seattle, etc.) where they are ruled by the Chang, who is the ruler of that Clan.
Streak - Some, however, will live elsewhere in the country rather than the HQ of their clan, and, if they are not the only solitary tigers in the area (as is probably usually the case) will group together in a Streak. Unlike the Clans, these Streaks are much smaller, not huge communes, and much more like other minority-therian societies in terms of size and structure. They are usually of mixed-colors rather than all one, and while each tiger owes their ultimate loyalty to his Clan Chang, they are more immediately ruled over by the Sahiba of the Streak. Basically, the Chang is President, the Sahiba is the mayor. Streaks may also be called Little Clans, since the Sahiba is usually a Little Queen.
Little Queen - A female with enough power to leave her own clan and establish a Streak of her own.
Sahiba - A Little Queen or other female tiger who has actually done so. She may have founded the Streak, or taken or inherited it from another Sahiba, or the Streak formed itself and she came to them later. Who gets to be Sahiba depends a lot on what kind of weretigers make up the Streak; a Streak of mostly Clan tigers will probably never accept an orange survivor as their Sahiba no matter how powerful she is, whereas a Streak of mostly orange tigers probably isn't going to care about whether their Sahiba has 'pure' breeding, and a Streak made up of mostly white clan tigers might demand that their Sahiba only be a white clan tiger as well. It all varies.
So, Klaus belongs to the White Clan and thus owes his loyalty to them and Bibi first, but he's a member of a Streak headed by a Sahiba called Sandhya, whom he is loyal to second, and Sandhya is of the Red Clan and thus answers to Cho rather than Bibi, hence the conflict of interest Klaus will be having in this installment that is 'addressed' by Lucille.
( SUE VS SUE )
In the books, a tiger "clan" can refer either to a group of tigers in the same way pack does for the wolves or rodere from the rats, but can also mean what color they come from--Cynric, for example is from the blue clan in the sense of his lineage but is a member of Anita's clan in terms of group affiliation. Changs rule the clans in terms of color lineage, so Bibiana rules the entire white clan aka all the white weretigers in the USA, but may not rule the smaller clan that a particular tiger of their color belongs to in terms of group affiliation.
Obviously, that's confusing as fuck, so this is the system we use:
Clan - The color they originate from. White Clan, Red Clan, and so on. As seen in the books, most members of a clan will live in a mass commune in one place made up only or almost exclusively of members of that clan color (the White Clan in Vegas, Red clan in Seattle, etc.) where they are ruled by the Chang, who is the ruler of that Clan.
Streak - Some, however, will live elsewhere in the country rather than the HQ of their clan, and, if they are not the only solitary tigers in the area (as is probably usually the case) will group together in a Streak. Unlike the Clans, these Streaks are much smaller, not huge communes, and much more like other minority-therian societies in terms of size and structure. They are usually of mixed-colors rather than all one, and while each tiger owes their ultimate loyalty to his Clan Chang, they are more immediately ruled over by the Sahiba of the Streak. Basically, the Chang is President, the Sahiba is the mayor. Streaks may also be called Little Clans, since the Sahiba is usually a Little Queen.
Little Queen - A female with enough power to leave her own clan and establish a Streak of her own.
Sahiba - A Little Queen or other female tiger who has actually done so. She may have founded the Streak, or taken or inherited it from another Sahiba, or the Streak formed itself and she came to them later. Who gets to be Sahiba depends a lot on what kind of weretigers make up the Streak; a Streak of mostly Clan tigers will probably never accept an orange survivor as their Sahiba no matter how powerful she is, whereas a Streak of mostly orange tigers probably isn't going to care about whether their Sahiba has 'pure' breeding, and a Streak made up of mostly white clan tigers might demand that their Sahiba only be a white clan tiger as well. It all varies.
So, Klaus belongs to the White Clan and thus owes his loyalty to them and Bibi first, but he's a member of a Streak headed by a Sahiba called Sandhya, whom he is loyal to second, and Sandhya is of the Red Clan and thus answers to Cho rather than Bibi, hence the conflict of interest Klaus will be having in this installment that is 'addressed' by Lucille.
( SUE VS SUE )
